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Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III

Monarchy, Spectacle and Experience

Edited by Jennifer J. Purcell, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA, Lucy D. Curzon, University of Alabama, USA & Fiona Courage, University of Sussex, UK

Using the observations and writings of the British public who experienced it, this book documents and analyses the coronation of Charles III in its social and cultural contexts It relates the activities and opinions of Mass Observers on the preparations and occasion of the first British coronation in 70 years, as well as the findings of Mass Observation investigators in several locations in the UK (including London) during the May 6th weekend The volume also bears witness to social and cultural change over time, including the media response and reporting of both pre-coronation planning and coronation weekend events, such as the Big Lunch, the Big Help Out and the crowning ceremony itself

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages • 35 bw illus

PB 9781350441774 • £22 99 / $30 95 • HB 9781350441781 • £70 00 / $95 00

ePub 9781350441767 • £20 69 / $28 34

ePdf 9781350441798 • £20 69 / $20 69

Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Objects of Poverty

Material Culture in Britain from 1700

Edited by Joseph Harley, Anglia Ruskin University, UK & Vicky Holmes, Queen Mary University, London, UK

Focusing on the history of poverty through the lens of objects crafted, owned, and used by those living in poverty, Objects of Poverty demonstrates how objects, or the lack of them, allow us to understand the experience of impoverishment from new and innovative perspectives Including 80 illustrations, and drawing on a variety of historical sources, including objects that survive today - this book traces the importance of materiality across all aspects of early modern and modern life, including the domestic sphere, fashion, healthcare, institutional life, and leisure

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages • 80 bw illus

PB 9781350368170 £26 99 / $36 95 HB 9781350368187 £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350368194 £24 29 / $33 74

ePdf 9781350368200 • £24 29 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

London

Geography, History, and Culture

Victoria R. Williams, Independent Scholar, UK London is one of the largest cultural and financial centers in the world How did it become the capital city of the United Kingdom, and what is life like in this global city today? Narrative chapters cover such themes as location, people, history, politics, economy, environment and sustainability, local crime and violence, security issues, natural hazards and emergency management, culture and lifestyle, London in pop culture, and London's future

UK February 2025

• US February 2025 • 296 pages

PB 9798216194743 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440877438

ePub 9798216112662 £21 55 / $26 95

ePdf 9781440877445 • £21 55 / $21 55

Series: Contemporary World Cities • Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain

The Legacy of Samuel Jones-Loyd

Sarah Flew

This book examines the growth of charity in 19th century Britain through the lens of the philanthropic activities of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, over a 40-year period Structured around the different recipients of Jones-Loyd’s 2,880 donations, this book offers detailed insight into the philanthropic market place of the 19th century, in addition to a variety of eminent social issues – such as the cholera outbreaks of 1849 and 1866, the education of children and adults, and emergency appeals at home and overseas

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350424593 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350424616 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350424609 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

The Radical War of 1820

Police Spies, Government Spies, and Willing Informers

David Smale

This book is a detailed account of the Radical War in 1820s Scotland, highlighting the conditions that led to the revolt, the reaction of the government, and the impact on Scottish society David Smale takes readers through the mass unemployment, disaffection, and formation of radical groups calling for parliamentary reform following Peace in 1815, as a prelude to the Radical War Using a wealth of archival material, this book readjusts existing narratives surrounding the conflict, shifting the focus away from the accounts of paid spies, and centering the little used records of the pioneering ‘new police’ force

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350513228 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350513242 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350513235 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Immigration and Exile ForeignLanguage Press in the UK and in the US

Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by Stéphanie Prévost, Paris Diderot University, France & Bénédicte Deschamps, Paris Diderot University, France

This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives into the influence of these marginalised publications, and forms a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 360 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350325258 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350107045

ePub 9781350107069 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350107052 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Memory and Modern British Politics

Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy

Edited by Matthew Roberts, LABOUR HISTORY

REVIEW, Sheffield, UK

Led by respected-academic Matthew Roberts, this edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statuemania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of ‘dead generations’. In doing so, this is the first collection to cover the entire modern period in detail

UK

PB

The German Democratic Republic

The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State

Ned Richardson-Little, University of Erfurt, Germany

This book is a concise history of East Germany and its people, from early Cold War foundations to its dissolution and the reunification of Germany in 1990. Ned RichardsonLittle delves into the central contradictions of the GDR as a state meant to overcome the horrors of the Third Reich and create a new utopia, while itself a brutal dictatorship Richardson-Little also convincingly argues that while the existence of the GDR was a product of the Cold War, it was also entangled in international politics well beyond the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350341517 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781350341524 • £50 00 / $68 00

ePub 9781350341548 • £15 29 / $21 59

ePdf 9781350341531 • £15 29 / $15 29

Series: German History in Focus • Bloomsbury Academic

The Tichborne Claimant

A Victorian Sensation

Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

The extraordinary case in 1874 of the Tichborne Claimant generated the longest trial, to that point, in British legal history Was the man claiming to be the vanished Sir Roger Tichborne really who he said he was; or was he Arthur Orton, a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia? Why, if he was a fraud, had the dowager Lady Tichborne recognised him? The trial mesmerised the British public and led to furious debate, to the extent that several newspapers were devoted entirely to the case and a Tichbornite candidate won a seat in Parliament

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 384 pages • 16 bw illus

PB 9781350547636 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781852854782

ePub 9780826434814 £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9780826442574 • £26 09 / $26 09

Bloomsbury Academic

The Holocaust in Eastern Europe

At

the Epicenter of the Final Solution

Waitman Wade Beorn, Northumbria University, UK

This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered ‘the epicentre of the final solution’. Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe, before tracing the escalating nature of Nazi policies in the area during the Second World War. Beorn crucially reflects on the German obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there This 2nd edition includes two important new chapters on sources, methods, and historiographical debates in the field and non-Jewish victims of the Nazi genocidal project

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 400 pages • 46 bw illus

PB 9781350387065 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9781350387072 £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350387096 £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350387089 £22 49 / $22 49

Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series

Daniel Siemens, Newcastle University, UK & Jennifer V. Evans, Carleton University, Canada & Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, Australia

Revolutions in Modern German History

Andrew G. Bonnell, University of Queensland, Australia

This innovative survey examines revolutionary history in modern Germany by focusing on key developments in the German states There is coverage of Germany and the French Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the 1918-19 revolution, the 1933 Nazi ‘revolution’, the revolution from above in Eastern Germany 1945-49, and the 1989-90 revolution in East Germany. The book sheds new light on the continuity of conflicts between revolution and counter-revolution and the significance of wider European and transnational movements and events The book integrates an intimate, personal dynamic by looking in-depth at the lives of individuals who experienced these tumultuous times

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350072619 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350072633 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350072626 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History

André Keil, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the history of dictatorships in Germany since the French Revolution The Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945, which brought about the Second World War and the Holocaust, is still taught very widely as the prime example of the destructiveness of ideologically driven regimes in the 20th century; the state-socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic that lasted for over 40 years bore many of the same dictatorial features Understanding the factors that made these two regimes possible and also their impact on the lives of many people, is key to understanding the course of modern German history as a whole

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350267732 • £22 99 / $30 95 • HB 9781350267749 • £70 00 / $95 00

ePub 9781350267763 • £20 69 / $28 34

ePdf 9781350267756 • £20 69 / $20 69

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Salon-in-Exile

Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London

Annalisa Nicholson, King's College London, UK

This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the Ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recitals, performances, and scientific lectures amid polite conversation, enabling mixed-gender intellectual exchange In A Salon-in-Exile, Annalisa Nicholson explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first book-length study of the Mazarin salon, one of the most celebrated salons in Europe and the most vibrant Francophone community in London

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

UK November 2026 US November 2026 240 pages 3 bw illus

HB 9781350415775 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350415799 • £00 00 / $00 00

ePdf 9781350415782 • £00 00 / $00 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023

Moments of Fury, Ramparts of

Hope

David Welsh, Independent Scholar, UK

This book examines the evolution of rail transport and railway workforces across modern Europe It looks at how rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states David Welsh convincingly argues that workers formed numerous new and enduring organisations such as trade unions that, in turn, became ramparts of hope Welsh goes on to consider how the insurgent character of these organisations produced moments of fury during tumultuous 20th-century periods The book also explores various contexts in which both characteristics came to the fore, including the ecology of fossil fuel technology

UK

ePub

ePdf 9781350500648 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, 1789-1870

Edited by Aude Attuel-Hallade, Sorbonne University, France

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism Taking the French Revolution as a starting point, seen in this context as the inauguration of an unprecedented sequence of dialogues between European ‘public moralists’, the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it It prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism in the 19th century

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350371033 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350371071

ePub 9781350371057 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350371040 £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Single Mothers in Twentiethcentury Ireland and Britain

Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization

Lorraine Grimes, Maynooth University, Ireland In Single Mothers in Twentieth Century Ireland and Britain, Lorraine Grimes examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to Britain in the twentieth century as they fled the shame of unmarried motherhood. Using archival research, oral history and original interviews, Grimes reveals the methods British and Irish institutions developed to manage these women, from forced adoption to institutionalisation in mother and baby homes, and the impacts these methods had on these mothers’ lives Single Mothers is essential reading for scholars of twentiethcentury women’s social, medical and political history

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350515178 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350515192 •

Vico, Hegel, and the Making of Modern Italy

The Spirit of the Risorgimento, 1799-1861

Alessandro De Arcangelis, University College London, UK

Using a transnational approach to the intellectual history of 19th-century Italy, this book examines the highly idiosyncratic juxtaposition and amalgamation of local and foreign philosophical traditions, chiefly represented by the thought of Giambattista Vico and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Alessandro De Arcangelis convincingly argues the decisive role this played in shaping a historical mindset able to direct, and give legitimacy to, Italians’ experiences of political change

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781350522923 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePdf 9781350522947 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims

Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943

Gabriella Romano, Independent Scholar, UK

This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period The book focusses on three different institutions in three parts of the country - Rome, Florence and Girifalco, helping to highlight the variety of attitudes and therapeutic approaches that existed across the country in the process

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350377097 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350377080

ePub 9781350377110 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350377103 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Power and Urban Space in PreModern Holland

Arenas of Appropriation in the Netherlands, 1500-1850

Clé Lesger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cities and urban societies have many faces In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through discursive strategies The continuity of the power relations in the cities of Holland, spanning centuries, makes it urgent to look not only at the assumption of urban space as an expression of power relations within society, but also at the contribution of this appropriation to the acceptance and continuity of the existing power relations in pre-modern Holland

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 312 pages • 36 colour illus

PB 9781350412361 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350412378

ePub 9781350412392 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350412385 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Revolution and Civil War in North Russia

Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917-1920

Alistair S. Wright, Independent Scholar, UK

Expanding our understanding of the Russian civil war, this book provides the first detailed, archivalbased study in English to analyse the two neighbouring regions of Murmansk and Karelia Despite not being far from the revolutionary capital, Petrograd, both territories resisted the establishment of Bolshevik power longer than many others and so this study offers novel insights into the complexities of the struggle that eventually led to communist rule It examines the Allied/anti-Bolshevik military and home fronts from a previously uncharted perspective and shines a much-needed light on the establishment and consolidation of Bolshevik power on the civil war periphery

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages • 22 bw illus

HB 9781350434011 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350434035 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350434028 £76 50 / $76 50 Bloomsbury Academic

How Russia Got Big A Territorial History

Paul W. Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

This book examines Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries It tells the story of how it became so Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W Werth recounts the construction of the world's largest country—from Muscovy and the Russian Empire through the USSR to today’s Russian Federation—as well as its territorial retrenchment and even collapse on several occasions Integrating geography, diplomacy, war, and imperial politics, the book ranges across three continents and recounts diverse interactions with neighboring polities and peoples

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages

PB 9781350284005 £12 99 / $17 95 HB 9781350284012 £45 00 / $61 00

ePub 9781350284036 £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350284029 £11 69 / $11 69

Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

The Nobel Family

Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

Bengt Jangfeldt

Translated by Harry D. Watson

This collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how their business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as Europe’s economic and entrepreneurial development in the long 19th century Now famous for the prize which bears their name, the Nobels were the Swedish founders of the Russian oil industry whose huge wealth was swept away during the Russian Revolution in 1917 Throughout a time of immense change in Russia and across Europe, the Nobels' story stands out as one of both brilliance and resilience, with family firmly at its heart

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 424 pages • 88 bw illus and 10 colour illus

PB 9781350529168 • £14 99 / $19 95

Previously published in HB 9781350348912

ePub 9781350348936 £13 49 / $18 89

ePdf 9781350348929 £13 49 / $13 49

Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series

Jonathan Smele, Queen Mary, University of London, UK & Michael S. Melancon & Ian D. Thatcher, Ulster University, UK

The Military History of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great until Nicholas II

John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State University, USA

This book examines the rise and the fall of the Russian Empire through the lens of its military history John W Steinberg uses a variety of archival sources to capture this aspect of modern Russia from Peter the Great right up to the present day Steinberg analyzes the social dynamic between Russian society and its military over time Through a focus on civil-military relations, he demonstrates that both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes were built on, and ultimately dependent upon, the support of the military

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 342 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350451476 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350037182

ePub 9781350037205 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350037199 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Russian Intelligentsia

From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station

Christopher Read, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. Christopher Read offers the first explanation of the intelligentsia as a group, and contextualizes their ideas within the framework of cultural, social, political, and economic development from the late 18th century to the present day This book is an essential guide to a fascinating aspect of Russia’s social and cultural history

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350441811 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035393

ePub 9781350035409 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350035836 £76 50 / $76 50

Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus

Periphery Unbound, 1920-29

Sara G. Brinegar, Independent Scholar, USA

Sara G. Brinegar’s book is the first to show how the politics of oil intersected with the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus; it reveals how the Soviets cooperated and negotiated with the local elite, rather than merely subsuming them More broadly, Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus demonstrates not only how the Bolsheviks understood and exploited oil, but how the needs of the industry shaped Bolshevik policy

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus

PB 9781350286672 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350286689

ePub 9781350286702 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350286696 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

A Political History of the USA

One Nation Under God

Bruce Kuklick, USA

Exploring the history of US politics from the first European contact with the ‘New World’ in 1492, up to the 2024 presidential elections, this book is an engaging account of America’s development from colony to world superpower Using religion as a central theme to navigate through this vast topic, it moves beyond the realm of political parties, leaders and ideologies to understand how politics has intersected with the individual and societal hopes, fears and values which have underpinned US political culture and theology

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 368 pages

PB 9781350429208 £24 99 / $39 95 HB 9781350429246 £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350429215 £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350429222 £22 49 / $22 49

Bloomsbury Academic

The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

The Summer That Changed Everything

Leigh Straw, University of Notre Dame, Australia

This book tells the story of summer 1944, a few months that irretrievably changed the Kennedy family as they sat on the cusp of incredible heights of fame and political power Beginning its story in the May of that year, The Kennedys at Cape Cod 1944 paints an intimate picture of those few months As the younger Kennedy children and their parents settled into their summer refuge at Hyannis Port, this book follows the scandal of Kick’s marriage to William ‘Billy’ Cavendish, Jack’s recovery from injury sustained in the line of duty, and Joe Jr’s secret bombing missions over Europe

UK August 2025 US August 2025 264 pages 30 bw illus

HB 9781350512580 £20 00 / $27 00

ePub 9781350512597 £18 00 / $25 64

ePdf 9781350512603 • £18 00 / $18 00

Bloomsbury Academic

America's National Anthem

"The Star-Spangled Banner" in U S History, Culture, and Law

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

This A–Z encyclopedia is a one-stop resource for understanding the history and evolution of the national anthem in American politics, culture, and mythology, as well as controversies surrounding its emergence as a lightning rod for political protests and statements It covers the origins of the song and its selection as the nation's official anthem. It discusses famous performances of the anthem; details laws and court decisions related to its performance; explains notable phrases in its lyrics; describes the meaning of the national anthem to different demographic groups; and surveys presentations and celebrations of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in popular culture

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 400 pages • 21 bw illus

PB 9798765138571 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440873188

ePub 9798216045267 £28 73 / $35 95

ePdf 9781440873195 • £28 73 / $28 73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

State Oddities

An Encyclopedia of What Makes Our United States Unique

Nancy Hendricks, Independent Scholar, USA

State Oddities is a fascinating trip through the 50 states for students studying America This book paints a picture of the broad sweep of the American story, offering a gateway to the country as it developed into one nation filled with individual states that can be remarkably different from each other, yet unified under such national symbols as the American flag and "The Star-Spangled Banner."

UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 440 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9798765138960 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440876691

ePub 9798216148821 £28 73 / $35 95

ePdf 9781440876707 £28 73 / $28 73

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Women Making History

Peg A. Lamphier,

California State Polytechnic University, USA & Rosanne Welch, Stephens College, USA

Wilma Mankiller A Life in American History

Tamrala Swafford Bliss, University of Maryland Global Campus, USA

An excellent resource for students of Native American history, Wilma Mankiller: A Life in American History provides an illuminating overview of how Wilma Mankiller's work and activism for the Cherokee Nation, including service as its first female principal chief from 1985 to 1995, reformed and revitalized the Cherokee Nation's tribal government and economy, sponsored important pushes to improve tribal education, healthcare, and housing services, and gave many Cherokee people a renewed sense of community and pride in their heritage

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9798216195221 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440873867

ePub 9798216184454 • £47 09 / $58 50

ePdf 9781440873874 • £47 09 / $47 09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Gloria Steinem A Life in American History

William H. Pruden III, Ravenscroft School, USA

This book details the life and activism of Gloria Steinem, using her life as a lens through which readers can examine the evolution of women's rights in the United States over the past halfcentury It provides an examination of her life and her efforts to further equal opportunity among all people, especially women, in the United States from the second half of the 20th century to the present More than just a biography, this book presents a life that is at once an engine for the change Gloria Steinem sought to achieve and an example and inspiration for future activists

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9798216195160 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440872709

ePub 9798216090878 • £47 09 / $58 50

ePdf 9781440872716 • £47 09 / $47 09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Hillary Clinton A Life in American History

Kathleen Gronnerud, Saddleback College, USA

This resource provides an in-depth overview of the life experiences, influences, and personal views of Hillary Clinton from her childhood in 1950s suburban Chicago to her presidential run in 2016 This book not only offers an overview of her education, family, career, and political views, but also provides historical context to her choices, accomplishments, and defeats The volume's chapters present a chronological telling of her life story thus far including key experiences, influences, and the development of her political views

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9798216195177 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440874178

ePub 9798216096139 • £47 09 / $58 50

ePdf 9781440874185 • £47 09 / $47 09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Eleanor Roosevelt A Life in American History

Keri F. Dearborn, Independent Scholar, USA

Using Eleanor Roosevelt's own words, personal correspondences, private documents, and a wide range of past perspectives and new biographical research, this book tells the intimate story of a real woman who struggled with a lack of self confidence but built a supportive network of like-minded activist women to realize change Roosevelt's story mirrors the challenges of the 21st century and offers real examples of how change is possible

UK April 2025 US April 2025 312 pages

PB 9798216195214 £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440873928

ePub 9798216078111 • £47 09 / $58 50

ePdf 9781440873935 • £47 09 / $47 09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Helen Keller A Life in American History

Meredith Eliassen, Librarian and University

Archivist at San Francisco State University, USA

This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacherguardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy, and overarching social history This narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9798216195207 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440874635

ePub 9798216095408 • £47 09 / $58 50

ePdf 9781440874642 • £47 09 / $47 09

Series: Women Making History • ABC-CLIO

World English

Rosa Parks A Life in American History

Darryl Mace, Alvernia University, USA

This book uses historical analysis and Parks's own words to paint a complete picture of her life as a courageous and defiant civil rights activist. It focuses heavily on the influence of her mother and grandparents in her civil rights activism and emphasizes the fact that Rosa Parks was always active and engaged in the struggle for civil rights Analyses of speeches she delivered provide a picture that broadens her influence and importance far beyond the Montgomery Bus Boycott The work also includes a timeline of key events in her life and a bibliography to aid additional research. Readers will benefit from a holistic approach that explores Parks's life well beyond her refusal to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus line

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9798216195184 • £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440868429

ePub 9798216140832 • £50 29 / $62 10

ePdf 9781440868436 • £50 29 / $50 29

Series: Black History Lives • ABC-CLIO

World English

China Resurrected A Modern Geopolitical History

Frans-Paul van der Putten

China’s rise to world superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history This book follows China’s geopolitical transformation on the world stage since 1840, arguing that its rise has shaped, and was shaped by, China's changing relationships with major world powers over the last two centuries

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350536586 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350536593 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350536609 • £19 79 / $26 99

ePdf 9781350536616 • £19 79 / $19 79

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Sacred Sites and Sacred Identities

Nalanda and its vicinity (c600-1200)

Diwakar Kumar Singh, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India

This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the history of Nalanda and its remarkable continuity with perceptible intellectual paraphernalia for which it became famous over the period The book attempts to understand the dynamics of a complex religious process with the focus on this monastery and its religious domain The interpretation is largely based upon the material records generated in the course of the excavations at Nalanda

UK August 2025 US October 2025 296 pages

HB 9789356408494 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9789356409712 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9789356407169 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic India

World English (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Zora Neale Hurston A Life in American History

Stephanie Li, Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University

This biography of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African American writers of the 20th century and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, explores Hurston's literary influences and the personal relationships that were most formative to her life Hurston's impact extends beyond the literary world: she also left her mark as an anthropologist whose ethnographic work portrays the racial struggles during the early 20th century American South This book explores her cultural and historical significance, providing context to her writings and allowing readers a greater understanding of Hurston's life while critically examining her major writing

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9798216195191 £21 99 / $29 95

Previously published in HB 9781440866548

ePub 9798216169710 £50 29 / $62 10

ePdf 9781440866555 • £50 29 / $50 29

Series: Black History Lives • ABC-CLIO

World English

The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader

Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan

Edited by Seth Jacobowitz, Texas State University, USA & Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK

This edited volume brings the writings of Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan’s most important intellectuals, into the English language for the first time. Part One contains translations of Hirabayashi’s fiction that embody the diversity of his work, including science fiction, detective fiction, and more idiosyncratic works such as ‘Demon at the Pulpit’, an antitheist and anticlerical story In Part Two, the book provides a range of invaluable auxiliary critical essays which are written by expert scholars based in four continents These essays examine Hirabayashi’s views on numerous topics, including the emerging women's movement, popular politics, Marxist theory, filmic and literary trends, and the relationship between mass production and modern aesthetics

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781350378155 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350378179 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350378162 £76 50 / $76 50

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Bloomsbury Academic

Exploring World History through Geography

From the Cradle of Civilization to a

Globalized World

Julie Crea Dunbar, Independent researcher, USA

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through time to examine world history through the closely related discipline of geography From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted – and still interact – with the environment around them, as well as the environment's role in not only shaping the society's world view but enabling the building of socially stratified and successful civilizations

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 376 pages • 52 bw illus

PB 9798765140154 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440872921

ePub 9798216182870 • £28 73 / $35 95

ePdf 9781440872938 • £28 73 / $28 73

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations

Michael Shally-Jensen & Anthony Vivian

This volume explores the span of human history –and plenty of prehistory – searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof The accelerating threat of climate change challenges us to analyze our own communities' relationships with the wider world and to contemplate their very existence

This single-volume cultural encyclopedia examines lost cities and civilizations from every region of the globe and dated throughout human history Arranged alphabetically, the compilation allows both students and general readers easy access to detailed entries on specific lost cities and civilizations.

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 360 pages • 31 bw illus

PB 9798765141175 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440873102

ePub 9798216182832 £77 43 / $96 30

ePdf 9781440873119 • £77 43 / $77 43

Bloomsbury Academic

The Avignon Popes and the Eastern Mediterranean Power and Authority, 1305-62

James Hill, Independent Scholar, UK

After the main crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land in the 13th century, the papacy did not withdraw from its interests and activities in the Eastern Mediterranean This book, based primarily on the letters sent by the popes in the Vatican Archives, explores the power and authority of the popes in their attempts at influencing events in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 14th century, and considers how this impacted their successes and failures

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 216 pages

HB 9781350522541 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350522565 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350522558 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Thomas Garnett

Science, Medicine, Mobility in Britain

Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK

Robert Fox uses the career of Garnett to construct a revealing socio-scientific history through a period of intense and complex social, political, economic and scientific change. Drawing from an extensive array of archival sources, this book offers a detailed study of the trials, triumphs, and tragedies of Garnett's life, and uses his experiences to illuminate a wide canvas of the social history of British science and medicine in the crucial period of early industrialisation

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350239326 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350239296

ePub 9781350239319 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350239302 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

They Believed That?

A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World

William E. Burns

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life—call them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong In an often incomprehensible world where lightning or plague could end life quickly or drought could condemn a poor family to agonizing death, superstitious beliefs gave people a feeling of understanding or even control They have continued to shape societies and cultures ever since

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 328 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9798765141137 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440878473

ePub 9798216182863 • £77 43 / $96 30

ePdf 9781440878480 • £77 43 / $77 43

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

British Settler Colonialism since 1530

Indigenous Peoples in an Imperial World

Susan Kingsley Kent, University of ColoradoBoulder, USA

This book provides an account of British setter colonialism across the globe from 1530 to the present day Centering the impact of settler colonies on indigenous peoples whose land was taken and populations were disrupted, it traces resistance, revolution, migration, assimilation and elimination in North America, Latin America, South Africa, Kenya, Ireland, the Middle East and Australia With maps, images, primary documents and suggested further reading British Settler Colonialism provides an introduction to empire and colonialism with a focus on indigenous peoples, cultures and histories

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350291669 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350291676 • £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350291690 • £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350291683 • £22 49 / $22 49

Bloomsbury Academic

Empire’s Other Histories

Gastrofascism and Empire

Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941

Simone Cinotto, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy

In studying food in short-lived Italian East Africa, Gastrofascism and Empire breaks significant new ground in our understanding of the workings of empire in the circulation of bodies, foodways, and global practices of dependence and colonialism, as well as the decolonizing practices of indigenous food and African anticolonial resistance Using an original decolonizing food studies approach and an unprecedented variety of unexplored Ethiopian and Italian sources, Cinotto describes the different meanings of different foods for different people at different points of the imperial food chain

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350436879 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350436831

ePub 9781350436855 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350436848 £76 50 / $76 50

Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations • Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Victoria Haskins, University of Newcastle, Australia & Emily J. Manktelow, University of Kent, UK & Fae Dussart, University of Sussex, UK & Jonathan Saha

Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions

Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century

Christina Petterson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Australian National University, Australia

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares two Moravian missions, Greenland and Australia, to demonstrate how their practices evolved over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as part of a globalizing world and economy Petterson situates the missions within the wider contexts of empire, colonization and a globalizing economy, shedding light on previously understudied archival documents

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 232 pages • 20 bw illus

PB 9781350325241 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350122086

ePub 9781350122109 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350122093 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Picturing Citizenship

Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation

Fay Anderson & Melissa Miles, Monash University, Australia, Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia & Amanda Nettelbeck

Citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation Looking to the wider historical processes through which citizenship and its associated ideas of rights and belonging have been imagined, debated and found lasting form, this collection considers the unique role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of citizenship in settler national contexts from the 19th century to the present day

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 45 illus

HB 9781350455887 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350455900 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350455894 £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, Archivist at the State Library and Archives of Tasmania, Australia

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces This book examines how the Franklins and other explorer families engaged in science, exploration and the exchange of information in the early to mid-19th century It follows the Franklins' journey, charting how they worked with intermediaries, imperial humanitarians and scientists, and shows how they used these experiences to claim a moral right to information

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350292970 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350292949

ePub 9781350292963 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350292956 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Galápagos

An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture

Randy Moore, University of Minnesota, USA

This encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galápagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to the challenges and issues the islands face today

In the mid-1800s Charles Darwin famously worked on his theories of evolution and natural selection there But who actually discovered the islands? Why didn't any country claim them for more than 200 years? And is ecotourism hurting or helping these mysterious islands?

UK February 2025 US February 2025 464 pages 50 bw illus

PB 9798765140123 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440864698

ePub 9798216088523 • £28 73 / $35 95

ePdf 9781440864704 • £28 73 / $28 73

Bloomsbury Academic World English

A Modern History of Politics and Violence

Raul Cârstocea, University of Leicester, UK & Paul Jackson, University of Northampton, UK

Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands

Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940

Edited by Petru Negura, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany, Andrei Cusco, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania & Svetlana Suveica, University of Göttingen, Germany

Bringing together an international cast of contributors, this book engages with popular responses to nationalising and state-building projects in Eastern Europe The book uses several case studies to highlight, from a comparative perspective, the local population’s social and political peculiarities around national identification. It considers how these positions have changed over time and impacted the relationships between these neighbouring regions, which today make up parts of various independent states

UK October 2025 US October 2025 288 pages 18 bw illus

HB 9781350443754 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350443747 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350443761 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence • Bloomsbury Academic

Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia

The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans

Carol S. Lilly, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA

As grave sites and memorials are increasingly being weaponized in conflicts across the globe, this timely book illuminates how the neglect of burial policies and politicization of cemeteries facilitated ethnicization of the dead and the desecration of graves and cemeteries during the Wars of Yugoslav Dissolution

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 344 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350285866 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350285828

ePub 9781350285842 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350285835 • £76 50 / $76 50 Bloomsbury Academic

Citizen-Driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War

Australian Aid during the 1971 Refugee Crisis

Rachel Stevens, Australian Catholic University, Australia

This open access book presents an international history of humanitarianism during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 Examining the motivations, actions and competing interests of multiple humanitarian actors such as the Red Cross, Oxfam, grassroots NGOs and individuals, it analyses the impact of humanitarianism for refugees in the camps

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian Catholic University.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350381476 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350381445

ePub 9781350381469 • £00 00 / $00 00

ePdf 9781350381452 £00 00 / $00 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin

Entangled Remembering

Eloise Florence, Western Sydney University, Australia

Eloise Florence here turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the Anglo-American consciousness Centered upon Teufelsberg and other Berlin sites, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American audiences The issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memorializing war and trauma; remembering destruction as a means to advance or challenge traditional war mythologies; and curation as an entry point for tourists to reconsider the impact of British and American aerial raids, including modern drone warfare

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9781350269033 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350268999

ePub 9781350269019 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350269002 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence • Bloomsbury Academic

Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality

M N Roy and Fellow Anti-Colonial, Communist and Humanist Intellectuals, c 1915 – 1960

Leonie Wolters, Freie University Berlin, Germany

As ideologies such as communism, fascism and various nationalisms vied for global domination during the first half of the 20th century, this book shows how a specific group of individualsa cosmopolitan elite- became representatives of those ideologies the world over Centering on M N Roy alongside several of his peers and competitors, this book uncovers the exclusive basis on which the universal claims of world-changing ideologies were made

UK August 2025 US August 2025 272 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350373181 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350373150

ePub 9781350373174 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350373167 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: Histories of Internationalism • Bloomsbury Academic

Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran

The End of Informal Empire, 1941-53

Jack Taylor, Independent Researcher, UK

This book explores British policy in Iran against a backdrop of decolonisation, to demonstrate the central place this nation had in Britain’s postwar imperial reorientation Focusing on the period leading up to Operation Ajax, it shows that although Iran was not part of Britain’s ‘rose coloured map’, it was a key part of the informal empire Using a wealth of primary sources, this book shows how the US government intervened to restore Iranian autocracy, and therefore supplanted Britain as the foremost power in the Persian Gulf, bringing half a century of informal empire to a close

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321175 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350320581

ePub 9781350321168 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350321199 £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Yiddish Voices

Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA & Alyssa Quint, Yeshiva University, USA

The Mother of Yiddish Theatre

Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska

Edited by Mikhl Yashinsky

This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska Originally appearing in instalments in Yiddish in the Warsaw Jewish daily ‘Der Moment’, the memoirs are introduced and translated into English here for the first time. They cover the period from 1870 to 1897, reflecting on Kaminska’s childhood, how she navigated the move from shtetl to city, and staged underground Yiddish performances, first in the Russian Empire and, after World War One, openly and to great acclaim in independent Poland The memoirs richly disclose the texture of everyday life for working Jewish women and the benefits and perils of their move from rural shtetls to more urban environments

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 328 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350321076 £16 99 / $22 95 HB 9781350321069 £50 00 / $68 00

ePub 9781350321090 £15 29 / $21 59

ePdf 9781350321083 £15 29 / $15 29

Series: Yiddish Voices • Bloomsbury Academic

Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture

Edited by Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent, UK

Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering political interactions in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world; how can it be defined and what was unique about it?

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350227859 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350227828

ePub 9781350227842 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350227835 • £76 50 / $76 50 Bloomsbury Academic

The Destruction of Dubova Chronicle of a Dead City

Rokhl Faygnberg

Edited by Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Translated by Cynthia Madansky

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, this book – translated into English here for the first time – provides a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one Ukrainian shtetl during the Russian Civil War pogroms Building on the most recent historiography on the Russian Civil War and antiJewish violence, Elissa Bemporad contextualizes the destruction of the shtetl within the political and military events of the war in the volume’s introduction She explores perpetrators motivations and victim responses to the pogroms, and examines the original writing produced by Rokhl Faygnberg Lastly, Bemporad discusses the different political and cultural purposes Faygnberg’s text has served at different times

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350517097 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781350517103 • £50 00 / $68 00

ePub 9781350517127 • £15 29 / $21 59

ePdf 9781350517110 • £15 29 / $15 29

Series: Yiddish Voices Bloomsbury Academic

World English

The Renaissance of Feeling Erasmus and Emotion

Kirk Essary, University of Western Australia Offering a re-reading of Erasmus’ works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings whether they were theological, literary or otherwise It argues that Erasmus’ conception of emotion was highly complex and richly diverse, going beyond the ‘religious’ sphere to natural philosophy, medicine and literacy This book provides a new lens to study Erasmus' works and sheds light on how emotions were understood during the Renaissance

UK August 2025 US August 2025 240 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350269828 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350269798

ePub 9781350269811 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350269804 • £76 50 / $76 50

Series: History of Emotions • Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity

Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK & Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere, Finland

This first volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines the ambiguity of youth in the ancient world, depictions of youth in literature, adult views of the young, agency and experience of young people, and the broader social contexts in which the cultural histories of the ancient world played out Overall, this volume offers a dynamic account of youth in the ancient world, providing a detailed study of the 500BCE500CE period, and allowing readers to trace representations and enactments of youth across time

UK November 2024 US November 2024 264 pages 25 bw illus

HB 9781350032972 £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335165 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350335158 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance

Edited by Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick, UK

Written by a diverse team of experts, this third volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores themes such as rites of passage, ideas about morality, youthful engagement with religion and the Reformations, and the experiences of young people With analysis of the broader framework in which the cultural histories of the Renaissance played out, this volume combines detailed analysis of the 1450-1650 period with an examination of the representations and enactments of youth across time

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 280 pages

HB 9781350033016 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335202 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350335196 £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire

Edited by David M. Pomfret, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Written by a team of experts, this fifth volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines youth as both a category and a lived experience, exploring the role of the young within imperial ideology, and the interactions of youthfulness with notions of progress and modernity

This volume analyses the broader social contexts in which the cultural histories of the Age of Empire played out, offering a detailed study of the years 1800-1920, and allowing readers to trace representations and enactments of youth across time

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781350033054 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335288 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350335295 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Middle Ages

Edited by Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

This second volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines burgeoning global studies of the Middle Ages, which includes conceptions of the “Ages of Man” literature, travel and pilgrimage accounts, saints’ lives and conduct literature, canonical texts and lesser-known narratives, biblical drama and educational treatises, from China to the New World as well as medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, and the broader settings in which the cultural histories of youth in the Global Middle Ages played out

UK November 2024 US November 2024 304 pages

HB 9781350032996 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335172 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350335189 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Adriana S. Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

This fourth volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores the connections between youth and Enlightenment as times of transition: between childhood and adulthood and from the premodern to the modern world Youth embodied values cherished by the Enlightenment movement: nature, spontaneity, possibility, individuality But the Enlightenment was an age of contrasts, and definitions and lived experiences of youth varied across regions and cultures and were always modulated by differences in gender, social rank, and ethnicity

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 296 pages

HB 9781350033030 £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335271 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350335264 £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

Edited by Simon Sleight, King's College London, UK & Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge, Canada

This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day

With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout history using all six volumes of A Cultural History of Youth, or can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual period

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 304 pages

HB 9781350033078 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350335349 £0 00 / $0 00

ePdf 9781350335356 £0 00 / $0 00

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity

Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK

This volume balances traditional approaches towards education with the new history of education that tackles the topic from a much broader scope The chapters integrate evidence from the Greek and the Roman world, next to Christian evidence from late antiquity

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages

PB 9781350536944 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035010

ePub 9781350239005 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350239012 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance

Edited by Jeroen J. H. Dekker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Education fueled the communication and knowledge society of the Renaissance This period saw increasing investments in educational institutions to meet the growing demand for literacy in the context of a religiously divided Europe with growing cities and emerging central governments

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350536999 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035096

ePub 9781350239043 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350239050 £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

Edited by Heather Ellis, University

of Sheffield, UK

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350537026 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035201

ePub 9781350239142 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350239159 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age

Edited by Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Georgetown University, USA

In the medieval world people learned, taught, worked, fought and prayed in social contexts that witnessed an expansion of literacy and learning

The chapters in this volume illustrate the extent to which medieval education formed the foundation of the modern educational enterprise

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, this volume presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350537002 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035034

ePub 9781350238763 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350238756 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna, Austria

The Age of Enlightenment is characterized by a growing belief in the human capacity to change the world This volume shows how the educational endeavors of the period contributed to a thoroughly educationalized culture around 1800, the foundation of the modern nation state, which developed into the long 19th century

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, this volume presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350537040 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781350035157

ePub 9781350239111 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350239128 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age

Edited by Judith Harford & Tom O’Donoghue

The twentieth century brought profound and farreaching changes to education systems globally in response to significant social, economic, and political transformation This volume draws together leading historians of education to present themes that characterize the many educational developments since 1920

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350537019 • £25 99 / $35 95

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Edited by Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Italy

This open access book A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. The flowering of alchemy in the Middle and Early Modern Ages had its roots in the chemical arts of antiquity

The themes covered in this volume are theory and concepts; practice and experiment; laboratories and technology; culture and science; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 312 pages

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age

Edited

by Bruce T. Moran

The volume covers the period from 1500 to 1700

This era in the history of chemistry was notable for natural philosophy, scientific discovery, and experimental method, and also as the high point of European alchemy - exemplified by the immensely popular writings of Paracelsus Developments in the chemistry of metallurgy, medicine, distillation, and the applied arts encouraged attention to materials and techniques, linking theoretical speculation with practical know-how Chemistry emerged as an academic discipline - supported by educational texts and based in classroom and laboratory instruction – and claimed a public place

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages

PB 9781350552081 • £25 99 / $35 95

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Peter J. Ramberg

The volume covers the period from 1815 to 1914

The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry At the turn of the century, the discovery of radioactivity took hold of the public imagination, drawing chemistry closer to physics, even as it threatened to undermine the whole concept of atomism

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages

PB 9781350552173 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781474294805

ePub 9781350251557 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350251540 • £67 50 / $67 50

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

Edited by Charles Burnett & Sébastien Moureau

The volume covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as ‘alchemy’ Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and commerce – alchemical practice largely focused on the production of new substances through various processes At the same time, alchemy was deeply theoretical, exploring the development of mineralogy, the perfection of corruptible matter, the prolongation of life, and the cure of diseases

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350552043 • £25 99 / $35 95

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ePub 9781350251496 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350251489 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy & Ursula Klein

The volume covers the period from 1700 to 1815 Already boasting a laboratory culture open to both manufacturing and commerce, Enlightenment chemistry now extended into academies and universities Chemists studied myriad materials - derived from minerals, plants, and animals - and produced an increasing number of chemical substances such as acids, alkalis, and gases New textbooks offered opportunities for classifying substances, rethinking old theories and elaborating new ones By the end of the period – in Europe and across the globe - chemistry now embodied the promise of unifying practice and theory

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350552142 • £25 99 / $35 95

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ePub 9781350251533 £67 50 / $91 79

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age

Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK

The volume covers the period from 1914 to the present The impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy has made this era the “Chemical Age” Chemical science spread across the globe and slowly became more diversified in terms of its ethnic and gendered mix, but it became almost invisible in the West after the Oil Crisis of the 1970s Whilst the chemical industry has clearly delivered many benefits to society— such as new materials and better drugs—it has been excoriated by critics for its impact on the environment

UK May 2025 US May 2025 288 pages

PB 9781350552197 £25 99 / $35 95

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ePub 9781350251571 • £67 50 / $91 79

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity

Edited by Clifford Ando, University of Chicago, USA, Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California, USA & Giulia Sissa, UCLA, USA

The essays in this volume of the award-winning 6-volume A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 42 bw illus

HB 9781350007376 £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350300934 £67 50 / $91 79

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance

Edited by Jill Kraye, University of London,

UK

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explores the ways in which distinctively Renaissance ideas and a distinctively Renaissance culture emerged from the complex interaction of ancient and medieval influences. The emphasis is on the interplay between culture and ideas, observed at close quarters through studies of scholars, physicians, botanists, and scientists; popes, cardinals, and bishops; Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, and heretics; missionaries and Mughal administrators; artists, craftsmen, merchants, and butchers Contributors to the volume look not only at philosophical, scientific, medical, pharmacological, astronomical, astrological, and cosmological treatises, but also at gardens, botanical collections and drawings, woodcuts, broadsides, frontispieces, peace treaties, and commercial contracts

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ePub 9781350300972 • £67 50 / $91 79

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire

Edited

by James H. Johnson, Boston University, USA

Few major European writers of the nineteenth century addressed the topic of empire explicitly, but its components are present throughout their work: in science and religion, literature and the arts, and philosophy, politics, and economics This volume in the awardwinning 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas, encompassing the period between the French Revolution and the First World War, offers a comprehensive account of nine central domains of thought in the long nineteenth century or “age of empire” Employing recent approaches in cultural history, scholars from a variety of fields revisit well-known works and present less-familiar figures to assess the origins and impact of ideas in their national and global contexts

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 42 bw illus

HB 9781350007482 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350301016 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350301009 £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age

Edited by Dallas G. Denery, Bowdoin College, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Reformation, which make up the Middle Ages Each chapter investigates the ideas and practices associated with a specific theme— knowledge, the human self, ethics, politics, nature, religion, rhetoric, art, and history—in order to reveal the tangle of social, cultural, and religious factors that shaped, and were shaped by, medieval intellectual life Central to this project is the need to read against the grain, revealing the limits and suppressions in both the medieval sources themselves and more recent scholarship on the period

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ePdf 9781350300958 • £67 50 / $67 50

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas focuses on the culture of the Enlightenment, long believed a time of enormous intellectual innovation and ferment However elusive the precise connection between ideas and culture in this period, the emergent mixture resonated throughout the West and beyond The book features essays by ten eminent scholars who consider nine different areas of intellectual investigation: knowledge, concepts of self, society and ethics, economics and politics, nature and natural law, religion, literature, the arts, and history In all of these areas, Enlightenment culture meant the development of modern values sharply at odds with the Old Regime in which they were embedded

UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781350007475 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350300989 • £67 50 / $91 79

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age

Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, USA

This volume in the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas confronts the challenge of the narrative, symbolic, institutional, and conceptual architecture of the twentieth century, mostly in the Euro-American West. To this day our thought is defined by terms that the twentieth century set in motion—from modernity to the age of extremes, from nationalism to internationalism to decolonization, from dada to poststructuralism, from the expanding university to neoliberalism and the end of history This book tracks nine categories: “Knowledge”, “The Human Self ”, “Ethics and Social Relations”, “Politics and Economies”, “Nature”, “Religion and the Divine”, “Language, Poetry, Rhetoric”, “The Arts”, and “History” It asks in what ways the twentieth century fundamentally addressed and altered each of these categories

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 45 bw illus

HB 9781350007499 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350301023 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350301030 • £67 50 / $67 50

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Modern Nigeria

Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi, IIE MSA, South Africa & Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi, Independent Scholar, South Africa

Discover Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, in this thematic encyclopedia that covers everything from geography and economics to etiquette and pop culture.

Chapters are organized thematically, examining a variety of topics

Each chapter begins with an overview essay, followed by a selection of encyclopedic entries that provide a more nuanced look at that facet of modern Nigeria The main text is supplemented with sidebars that highlight additional high-interest topics A collection of appendices rounds out the volume, offering short vignettes of daily life in the country, a glossary of key terms, statistical data, and a list of state holidays

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 400 pages • 13 bw tables

PB 9798765112052 • £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9798216172093 • £72 64 / $90 00

ePdf 9781440865572 • £72 64 / $72 64

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern France

Michael F. Leruth, College of William & Mary, USA

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to this influential nation. Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life "

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 544 pages

PB 9798765141144 • £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9798216186311 £79 83 / $99 00

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Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern Greece

Edited by Elaine Thomopoulos, Independent scholar, USA

There's more to Greece than its legacy as the birthplace of democracy and Western Philosophy

Discover what life is like in this contemporary European nation Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life"

UK March 2025 US March 2025 432 pages 31 bw illus

PB 9798765141106 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440854910

ePub 9798216118565 • £79 83 / $99 00

ePdf 9781440854927 • £79 83 / $79 83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern Philippines

Patricio N. Abinales, University of HawaiiManoa, USA

This comprehensive thematic encyclopedia focuses on the Philippines, exploring this important island nation from a variety of perspectives Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life "

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 424 pages

PB 9798765141120 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440860041

ePub 9798216118688 • £79 83 / $99 00

ePdf 9781440860058 • £79 83 / $79 83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern Germany

Wendell G. Johnson, Northern Illinois University, USA & Katharina Barbe, Northern Illinois University, USA

Explore what life is like in contemporary Germany, from its linguistic dialects to the famous Oktoberfest Thematic chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender, marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more Each chapter opens with a general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even closer on the topic Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life "

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 464 pages

PB 9798765141113 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781440864537

ePub 9798216118558 £79 83 / $99 00

ePdf 9781440864544 £79 83 / $79 83

Series: Understanding Modern Nations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

Writing Conceptual Histories

Edited by Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Pasi Ihalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Pasi Ihalainen and Jani Marjanen lead a group of world-renowned scholars to focus on the development and central concepts of conceptual histories The book's innovative case study approach compares conceptual history with other approaches to history and provides students with a solid understanding of concepts of history in practice This textbook explains the key theoretical notions of this multidisciplinary field and teaches students how this can be applied to the study of a variety of historical themes

UK September 2025 US September 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350287181 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350287174 • £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350287204 • £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350287198 • £22 49 / $22 49

Series: Writing History • Bloomsbury Academic

Social Bonds and Historical Time

Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell, Uppsala University, Sweden

This book analyses the social dimension of historical time, and explores how we emotionally and intellectually bind ourselves to the past, and project these ties onto our present and future Gustafsson Chorell argues that historical time is inherently social, and that the nexus of past, present, and future is constructed through social mechanisms Beginning with the concept of the ‘historical imaginary’, this book examines the theoretical shift from future-oriented to present-oriented models of time, and integrates insights from intellectual history, philosophy, and social theory

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350477223 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350477247 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350477230 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History

A Theory for the 21st Century

Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil & Valdei Lopes de Araujo, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of ‘Updatism’, the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 144 pages • 14 bw illus

PB 9781350410725 • £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9781350410749 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350410732 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust

An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance

Alexis Herr, University of San Francisco, USA

This resource gives voice to the experiences of LGBTQ+ persons prior to, during, and after the Holocaust Entries consider the lives of the persecuted and the persecutors alongside examinations of the attitudes and ideas that shaped their present and their prejudices; in short, how the German society at large came to condone, and at times participate in, the forceful arrest and disappearance of thousands of their fellow citizens A chronology of key events, perspective essays, and primary sources further help shed light on the resilience and resistance of the LGBTQ+ community and the evolution of their persecution under the Nazis

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages • 18 bw

HB 9798216169758 £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9798765111932 £94 20 / $117 00

ePdf 9798216169765 £94 20 / $94 20

Bloomsbury Academic

The Holocaust in Paris

A Spatial and Oral History of Drancy

Stephanie Hesz-Wood

Hesz-Wood explores the city of Drancy from its initial conception in the 1930s by French architects Beaudouin and Lods as a model city, through eight decades of personal histories to understand how the once ground-breaking prefabricated social housing complex came to represent antithetic ideals—oscillating between a symbol of urban utopia and a place of incarceration and terror as a Nazi internment camp

UK November 2025 US November 2025 208 pages 20 bw illus

HB 9781350453456 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350455085 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350455092 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

British First World War Propaganda

From A to Z

David Monger

Exploring 26 dedicated topics, this book delivers a comprehensive study of propaganda in Britain during the First World War Combining analysis of the latest scholarship with discussion of primary propaganda sources, Monger provides a critical introduction to the diversity of First World War propaganda, in addition to an overview of the current state of the field. Examining subjects ranging from Duty and Jokes, to Kultur and Unofficial Propaganda, this book highlights how each form of propaganda was created and the ways it impacted its targets, whilst also crafting a narrative that links each topic from A to Z

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350386839 • £26 99 / $36 95 • HB 9781350386846 • £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350413542 • £24 29 / $33 74

ePdf 9781350413559 £24 29 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

A Short History of the Wars of the Roses

Revised Edition

David Grummitt

Now in its 2nd edition, this book is an accessible history of the English civil wars of the mid-15th century It offers a comprehensive account of the major political events, detailing the 30-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, and analysing the formal clashes of royalist and rebel armies, such as the battles at St Albans and Bosworth Expanding on the successful 1st edition, the book has been updated to include new material on the struggle for Ireland, a new section on gender and the role of women, analysis of the role of chivalry, and more

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350457997 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350457980 • £45 00 / $61 00

ePub 9781350458000 • £13 49 / $18 89

ePdf 9781350458017 £13 49 / $13 49

Series: Short Histories Bloomsbury Academic

British ‘Spy Fever’ in the First World War

Fearing the Enemy Within

Harry Richards, University of Portsmouth, UK

Following the declaration of war in 1914, German spies were sighted across Britain as a potent form of ‘spy fever’ supposedly gripped the nation This book questions the extent to which British society was truly terrified of German spies and explores the broader impacts of secret warfare during the early stages of the First World War Whereas previous studies of spy fever have taken a narrow view, arguing that it was entirely characterised by terror and hysteria, this book shows that it should encompass a wider variety of emotions and experiences

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus

HB 9781350523432 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350523463 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350523456 £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic

Admirals in Court

Discipline, Honour and Naval Justice, 1778-1814

John Morrow, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

This book explores the courts martials of nine British flag officers during the American and French Wars in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Setting their experiences in the context of the naval courts martial system and considering their charging and conviction rate with other naval personnel in the period, it offers new insights into how the naval justice system worked at the top of society

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350467279 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350467293 • £76 50 / $103 94

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Bloomsbury Academic

The Eastern Front in European Memory

On Victims and Heroes, 1945-2024

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Translated by Craig Patterson

This is the first comprehensive study to examine the place of the Eastern Front or Soviet-German War in European memory from a truly comparative perspective across Europe; it encompasses the Soviet and post-Soviet space, Germany (both GDR and FRG, and the Berlin Republic after 1990), Western Europe and Finland Covering the whole post-war period to the present, with a particular emphasis on recent events, this book offers a cultural perspective on the different ways in which the politics of memory dictated by states interact with and are sometimes counteracted by grass-roots memory initiatives

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 35 bw illus

HB 9781350435995 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350436015 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350436008 • £76 50 / $76 50

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Great Sieges in World History

From Ancient Times to the 21st Century

Spencer C. Tucker, Senior fellow in military history for ABC-CLIO

This impressive collection provides readers with detailed coverage on 100 of the sieges that have had the biggest impact on world history, beginning with the Siege of Troy (1194–1184 BCE) and ending with the Siege of Mosul (2016–2017) In addition to providing basic factual information, this encyclopedia delves into the historical context and significance of each siege. Readers will be able to identify relationships between entries and observe both the gradual evolution of siege warfare over time, and compare and contrast siege characteristics within and among different historical time periods

UK February 2025 US February 2025 320 pages

PB 9798765140130 £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9798216091967 • £28 73 / $35 95

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Bloomsbury Academic

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

John T. Kuehn, United States Army Command and General Staff College, USA

The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters, such as the Taiping Rebellion

UK February 2025 US February 2025 408 pages 25 bw illus

PB 9798765139998 • £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9798216040798 • £28 73 / $35 95

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Bloomsbury Academic World English

Modern African Conflicts

An Encyclopedia of Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Terrorism

Edited by Timothy J. Stapleton, Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

Armed conflict represents a substantial part of African history since around 1960, yet this history is either insufficiently taught or overshadowed by negative stereotypes about African "tribal warfare " This encyclopedia provides concise historical information on conflicts that occurred in postcolonial Africa, covering types of conflicts from civil wars to conventional military engagements, the involvement of foreign powers, and themes such as women and war and genocide

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 432 pages

PB 9798765140161 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Conflict in the Holy Land

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With more than 250 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Holy Land, including events, individuals, groups, places, and ideologies, this illuminating book will help students understand the volatile history of Palestine and Israel and its impact on the rest of the world Also included are contributions from dozens of distinguished scholars and independent historians from a variety of disciplines, helping to build a fuller picture of the conflict from ancient times to the present

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The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

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Giesecke,

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The volume covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the birth of agriculture in Mesopotamia to the rise of Byzantium, the end of the Han Dynasty in China, and the first flowering of Mayan civilization. Human uses for and understanding of plants drove cultural evolution and were inextricably bound to all aspects of cultural practice The growth of botanical knowledge was fundamental to the development of agriculture, technology, medicine, and science, as well as to the birth of cities, the rise of religions and mythologies, and the creation of works of literature and art

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Edited by Andrew Dalby & Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The volume covers the period from 1400 to 1650

The Renaissance revived ancient knowledge in Europe whilst developments in printing accelerated the dissemination of knowledge Exploration and trade placed all the continents in contact with one another, encouraging new food staples and spices, new botanical medicines, and new garden plants Botanical knowledge – in the service of agriculture, trade, and science – all expanded

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

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The volume covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Edited by Alain Touwaide, The Huntington Library, California, USA

The volume covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments, populations, and cultural practices Many of the ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved, but these were overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicine, eating habits, and art

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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The volume covers the period from 1650 to 1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas Foreign and exotic plants become objects of cultivation, collection, and display, whilst the applications of plants became central not only to naturalists, landowners, and gardeners but also to philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and rulers As the Enlightenment took hold, the natural world became something to be grasped through reasoned understanding

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

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The volume covers the period from 1920 to today Advances in agriculture, science, and technology have revolutionised the ways we feed ourselves, whilst urbanization and industrial processing have reduced our direct connection with living plants At the same time, our understanding of both ecology and conservation have increased exponentially, whilst our appreciation of the meanings and aesthetics of plants suffuse art and everyday culture More than ever before, we understand that the vitality of our relationship with plants will shape our future

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How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 54 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.

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Tracing the cultural history of violence through the ages, these 6 volumes explore how it has been understood, created, carried out and controlled from the ancient world to the modern day.

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A Cultural History of Plants

6-Volume Set

Edited by Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK and Macquarie University, Australia

Winner of the 2022 Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin Award

How have plants have shaped human culture? Covering the last 12,000 years, these 6 volumes together provide the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture.

Themes (and chapter titles) are: plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index

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From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. This is the first detailed and authoritative survey of chemistry and its central role in society over the last 5000 years The expert contributors focus on the West but integrate key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires

Themes (and chapter titles) are: theory and concepts; practice and experiment; sites and technology; culture and knowledge; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation

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